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CITY GOURI 29th YEAR. OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRDAY, JULY 21, 1911. No 11. OREGON .BR i THE FARMER'S TU0NT0 BUT. Comes in for a Long In ning from Now On. "HAYSEED" DAYS ARE PASSED Land will be Gold and the Farm er "It" from Now On. There lias certainly a better day dawued for the man who gets li is liv ing from the ground, and it will b a long time before the bqu sets oil this day or the Courier editor 1b no prophet. Up until the laat few years farming hasn't been an ioe cream social. The millions of acres of free land stretched out in every duection a case of more land than people. Bat the great emigration or the past years, the never-ending line of tlion sands and thousands who pour into this coontry every day of every week, lias made a market lor almost every thins that grows and today the faim er is about the best hooked up of any of the class who ninst work And what a reversal of conditions there has been in the paBt few vears. Twenty years ago the man who had a steady job with a fair salary was pretty well fixed, and the farmer who liaa a mortgage on his place was a slave. The man with a job conld boy any thing the farmer prodoced at his own price, because there was little de mand for the products. Uia dollar was a long one, and its porohnsing power great. The farmer bad mighty little to do with fixing the price of bis stuff. He offered it in the market and took what was paid him beosuse he was forced to. And today the live farmer is falling over horseshoes, while the salary man is singing blue musio and thinking of buying a farm. Increasing population, better roads, rnral mail delivery, telephones, creameries, improved machinery and education in farming have done their work and the "hayseed" is bnt a memory of the old, hard days. In forty years onr popnlation has doubled. In another fortv ye.trs it will doable sgain. Auv miiti who ha" sense enough to pour sand in a rat hole must know that tr mi now on laud is gold and that Uod's old e-i'th hus TJuited Stales honiie way down the list as a safe investment. I do not believe there is a spot in - this oouutrv today where a man could go wrong if he bought land at Its pro dnoing price not the speculators' price, bnt its actual market valae. One drawback to farm prices in this connty is that owners give bo little oare or heed . to buildings surround ings and comforts the little things that mane lire inviting and pot a ready sale on the farm. There are too many tumtile down barns iiaiutless houses and lawns that the hens and weeds fight over. When a city resident wants to sell to sell property he "fixes up " He knows the boyer .will pay for the paint and the little expenses and he knows these little details make his property look good. This is some thing the farmer will learn in time bnt something he is learning very slowly. There's a great future for the Ore gon farmer. This state has a soil that will produce almost anything that can be grown anywhere and prodnce it higger ana id great quantities The farmer has but to use his head to have his farm face Easy street. Brains count much more than brute strengb but it is very hard to make the average mau believe that his head is better than his hands. JUDGE BY THE GOODS. It Doesn't Matter What Factory Turned Them Out. Last week at fellow dropp-d in to state that Brown was a pretty good preacher Due that lie aid not live Dp to his texts that his advice was good bat that it was for the other fellow to observe. What does anybody rare? If I lived op to all I siucerely be lieve in I wouldn't be editing a news paper in Oregon City. I won Id be playing a harp in the orchestra of the good who died young. It isn't a question of the writer's saintliness. If you can dig anything ont of this sheet that yon think is worthy of following take it down the line and don't lame your neck look ing back to see if the author of the advice is in the procession and is keepiag step to the advion music Good is good and bad bad ngardlees of the source. If a nerve-wrecked booze-goner were to picture to me the bell in which he lived and the awful torture of the nights which have no end it would get under my skin just as deep as the same picture painted from the pal pit by a minister who oouldn't tell the difference between barrel-house whis key and Jookey Olnb. The edjtor of this paper has ever condemned the use of those heart killing nerve-destroying oontemptible looking oigarettes yet no doubt com petent witnesses ooold be found who would testify that the pilot of this sheet had been caught w ith the goods on him. 1b the advice to cut out the "paper things" any less of value? If this pain r occasionally gets off somrthinv that would do yon good, sw allow it ana don t wait to dig up my fiumly history to see if 1 took a dt se first The truth is th' goods and a liar hasn't got to apilogize for handling it Vou toald talk to your hoy like a Dutch uncle against chewing tobacco and go to the door between arguments to spit. The advice is just as good as if yon never tasted the stuff. Bat in this instance it might lose a little of its force. HOW H HIE ESCAPtEM ALL? Microbes and Germs will Surely Get Us. WORSE THAN THE TRUSTS, Heroes, like made to order. sermons, are often Some Sense and Nonsense of Theories and Things. They tell us to "swat the fly" or he'll swat os; that every speck of his body is covered with microbes and bis drill ia "oatpd with fever which he will inject into us if he ges to os first. He's a danger, a disease- breeder, and we mast swat him. Bnt when your dad was a boy there wasn't a soreen on window or door; the flies had a right of might to crawl all over the baby and danoe on the pie crnst. And yet we were more healthy then than now. They tell as that absolute oleaoli ness and fall ventilation are necessary to ns if wt would have health and a pair of lungs to last oat. and the doctors advocate out of door bed rooms as necessary for health. A bunch of ten to twenty Dagos will eat and sleep in one box oar, without ventilation, never know that water has any other ose than for drinking, and yet they will show op a bunch ot dirty health that an athlete wonld envy. They tell as that drinking water that has not been filtered, other than a mountain stream, is poison to the system, that fever has rented rooms in every tiny particle, and that unless bonea it Will start yon to 'the grave- i jaru. For months the writer has drank Btagnant water from the water holes of Texas, water rained nine months before and which the range cattle used for a natatorium, and lie has in times of necessity quarreled with the wigglers over the cupful of wetness in a pot rock and drank it. And he never had suoh health. There are microbes in everything, danger in everything now-a-days, and it is one of the modern wonders how we ever manage to escape them and live the week out. There's a lot of darned nonsense in these modern health rules and regula tions. If a man will nse the legs and arms (iod gave him to wigele with; use his lungs to hi em lie air instead of smoke with, rise his stomach to eat fcod with instead of making it an ice ream storage, lie won't have to worry over nv bates or water wig glers, for ha will have health to throw off any variety of microbe or germ. I wouldn't advise hitohing onto sewer ditch for water for domustio purposes, for it might get vou if you stayed with it, bnt if yon will drive in health you won't have to worry whether a fly took a walk aoross a slice of bread, before yon dare eat it Gernis and microbes are no friends of health, and it's easier to fight for that than to tight the doctors' terrors. Kver see a siok Mexican, cowboy Indian or negro? Portland may soon become a tobacco center, if the predictions of Nathan Thayer, an experienced southern grower, are materialized. Thaver has been looking over the territory around Kennewick, which is tributary to Portland, and believes it to be ideal for tobacco growing. So convinced is he of the adaptability ot this coun try for tobacco that lie lias secured a large tract near Eeunewick and has left for Kentucky to ' secure a large number ot negroes as laborers. MURDER 15 YET MYSTERY Sheriff Mass Thinks the Swede is Innocent. CATHERY SAYS HE'S GUILTY, Two States Hunting for a Mur derer who Eludes Them. There is some very oiroamstantial evidence that the person who brutally murdered and mutilated Mr. and Mrs. Archie Ooble of Rainier, Washing ton, and the person who murdered The county court lias changed its i the Hill family near Milwaukie. June first plan for enlarging the court K, is the same person, and Sheriff house, the reasons being given that Mbbs ot this county. Sheriff Gaston of PLANS CHANGED, County Court will Enlarge Court House from Rear. there were many protests against changing the front ot the building, and at a meeting Monday night it was deoided to change the plans and make a 80-feet extension at the rer of the building. It ib proposed to have a vault 31x32 to enlarge the offices of the county clerk, surveyor, superintendent of schools, sheriff and reoorder; to have the oounty conrt occupy the present court room and the circuit court on the second floor, as also the county oonrt judge's room. It is said the cost will be from $14, 000 to $15,000, bat it has not yet been decided whether the work will bi let on contracts or whether the connty court will do the work. Breeze Brings Business Electric Fans are indispensible to stores, shops bars, soda fountains, cafes in short, any place cat ering to public patronage. A regard for your customers' comfort demands the use of Electric Fans. The most suitable Fan is the Oscillating type in either the twelve or six teen inch size. This type turns from side to side, and will uniformly cool a large area. We also have an eight inch bracket type for cooling your telephone booth. Our Electric fan represents perfection in fan manufacture The cost of operation is too trivial for serious consideration less than one cent an hour. Let us have a representative call and prove to you that the use of our electric fans during the summer months will mean just what we claim that Breeze Brings Business. Phone us. Portland Railway, Light & Power Co. Phone M-668S.A-61 31 7th and Alder Streets FINDS LOST ART. Theodore Granquist Tempers and Hardens Copper. Theodore Granquist, a Finlander who lives in West Oregon Oitv. brought to the Courier oflice a knife forged from solid copper, which he had hardened and tempered and whioh served all the purposes whioh a steel ciaae serves. The blade was put to tests of wood cutting and the edge held as well as a Bteel blade. The tempering and hardening of copper is said to be a lost art, and that the ancients powssed the secret. Mr. Qranqnist has worked on the process for three years and lie claims he has discovered the long-hidden seoret. He a bo showed a small bar or the copper that to nil sppearances ai'fl tests was ueailv as hard as steel. He has taken the matter up with the patent office and hopes to realize something from his disoovery. Mr. Granquist is a native of Oulnn Laani, a small settement in Finland, a would-be Russian annex, and came to this country a few years ago, and oan speak bnt little English. Copper is one ot the prominent minerals of the country and the people there are familiar with it and its many uses. If his seoret process proves success ful, great wealth is in store for him, and not only will the name of Qran qnist live in the annals of history, but the faot of the development of this wonder here in Oregon City, will add much to Oregon's famous old city. COMING EASY NOW. Nothing Succeeds Like Success in Railroad Work. Splendid weather, easy stock sales and general enthnBiasm are lengthen ing the Clackamas Southern railroad every day, and as the Yankee says it is "all done but the fiinishiug." The orisis his long since passed on this undertaking and the finish of the road is bat a matter of work audtime When the proposition was first started when it looked like a big chance, then it was a nibtter of mighty hard work to find enough sandv men to take a chance, but now with the work half done, there is plenty of money left that wants to get in, for the Clackamas railroad is going to be a good investment. And outside of the dividends it will pay in cash is the investment it will be to Oregon City a proposition that oar people do not half appreciate. ThiB road will opn np a new coun try and bring every foot of its timber and every pound of its products to Oregon City. It will make new larms along the route ; it will improve dead laud; it will bring in people and settle the country, and it will direotly add a lot ot business and people to Oregon City WORTH TRYING. Lady Resident Propose-Novel Idea to Beautify Bluffs. One of Oregon City's ladies was a caller at the Courier office the other day with a novel proposition which she t-inks would do much to beantify and add to the picturesqueness of the oity, and at very small expense. The proposition was to oat the brush and rubbish from the faoe of the bluffs and at the several stair ways, and at the bottom set out na tive wood vines. Site said that in two or three Tears these vines would climb the bluff face, completely cover them and also cover and conceal every timber of the different stairways and make the whole a place of beauty. The suggestion is one that would cost but little to try, and there is little doubt bat that the experiment woo Id prove a pleasing saocess. There are many vines that grow prolific in this state, and they wonld soon cover these rock bluffs. Bat it is op to the ladies to start it the men never will. If once the beauty of this idea conld be demon strated, it conld no doubt be carried out and add much to tho city's beauty. Thrnston oounty, and Sheriff Long mire ox r-ieroe connty, Wash , are working night and day to oonneot the two awful murders to the same hand. The murder of Mr. and Mrs. Coble was in almost every detail a dupli cate of the horrible hatchery in this county. The yonng couple were asleep in bed ; the mnrderer entered through a window, each was brained with an ax, the heads beina cat open and skulls crushed, and the woman had been assaulted. The hour of the crime was the same as that of the Hill family killing, and every circum stance points to the same hand as the mnrderer. Swan Peterson, a tramp Swede, is in (lie jail at Olympla with a mouu tain of oironuiBtantial evidence piled up against him. Among his affects were blood-stained garments, an on dershirt stained with blood, a towel from which blood stains had been washed and several other details that look very suspicious. The man had been working on a section, he left the job without drawing his pay, there were bloodstains in the room he occu pied, and garments that had been washed in his room. He was taken to the Ooble home and viewed the mutilated bodies, but remained stolid and uninterested. He simply sttok to the story that he knows nothing of the murder. If he is innocent he lias much to explain to clear up the many incriminating circumstanoes against mm. Dr. and O. A. Oathery of Portland, who have long made a study of blood stains, and who eUiin to have a secret chemical Vihioh will bring out blood stains when Invisible to the eye and alter having been thoroughly washed and eradicated, have done mnoh to ttai e the crime to Peterson At the Coble home, footprints left by a man walking on tiptoe were found, and comparison with footmarks round at the soene of the Hill murder indicate that tiiev are the imprints of tne same man. The man's Btride in each case is 81 inches, and the width ot the shoe in both oases is incites. Bolstering the evidenoe supplied bv tr.e footprints, the width of the hand of tho murderer, as traced at the scenes of both murders is identical Added to this, Oather brothers de clare they have sufficient finger mams to make a microscopical ex animation or the lines to compare tnem with the digit marks of the pns onar held in Tacoma as the murder suspect. Soon after the Hill murder. Dr. Oathey and his brother removed the window sills and door casings from the sneiie of the quadruple orime and from them obtained blood lin prints by the application of a liquid whioh has the peculiar virtue of bringing oat a bluish-green tint wherever a blood stain has been left. On the sills and casings were fouud several imprints of the murderer's hand. These are said to be identical with the hand imprints said to have been left by Peterson in several places about the hotel at liainier where be roomed. Since the above was set, ShorifT Mass has returned from Olympia and he states that he does not believe Pot erson had anything to do with either crime, and that the mnrderer is yet at large. Sheriff Mass says the matter of the blood stains has been greatly exaggerated, and that the blood found in his room was canscd by a little girl catting her finger He says Peterson gives a full acoount of himself before, at the time and after the crime and there does not seem to be any grounds on which to connect him with the orime. lie says the Coble couple were killed In precisely the same manner as the Hill family, audthere is every lndloa tion that the same man oommitted botn murdera lu direct contradiction to Sheriff Mass, O. O. Cathey, of Portland, who has been working on the case by means or cue new blood-detecting sys tern, says that he believes Peterson to be a degnerate of the lowest type, is still ooufident, in his own mind, that he is tne murderer. "A far as the tcientiflo work is con cerned, I have finished and I believe I have the circumstantial evidence all shaped against Peterson. But I do not think that anything less than a complete confession will oonviot him. we have decided to keen him in soli tary confinement for six days, in the hope that he will weaken and make a oonfeBSion He looks the part of a de generate and he acts the part, bat that is no evidence at all in a murder case. J. here are dozens of bits of evi denoe we have which are unprintable and all of which go to show that the two murders were committed by the tame man. I took his roll of clothes and examined them I found thirteen distinct blood spots on his collar, three distinct splatters on his shirt front, other streaks and spots on other parts of his shirt and bloodstains on his shoes. All were invisible to the unaided eye, bat were brought out by tne aeteoung nvsieni. mere was also some bl;od on his underclothing. He was unable to account for tlia blood except in the case of the shirt, whioh be said he round near Sacramento. He admitted that he hadn't had the nosebleed for 11 yars." Where ignorance ii to serve hash. bliss it is safe 'No Trespass" signs, minted on oloth, durable and lasting. Courier office. WOULD ANNUL DECREE Interesting Sequel to Former County Divorce Matter. A sequel to a divoroe decree that was granted in this oity two years ago, has been on trial here, and as it oonneots prominent and wealthy peo ple it has attracted considerable at tention. The history of the case and the parties reads much like the plot of a today popular novel. Charles D. Taylor was a miner and for 17 years he hunted out the odd spots of the states and Alaska for gold, and be is the man who located the famous Bed Top gold mine at Goldfleld, Nevada. A few months later he sold the mine and oleaned op two and a half million dollars. He met Minnie Terwilliger in Gold fleld, fell in love with her, and they were married, but it was another case of where love didn't slip along smoothly. During a trip to Europe it is alleged he left her, bat made ar rangements that she should have a certain monthly sum for her mainten ance. On her return to California she brought suit against Taylor for $250 per month for support when she loarnoa mat ne naa oeen granted a divoroe from her in Oregon City near ly two years before. Mrs Taylor is seeking to reopen the case and have the divoroe decree an nulled on the ground that Bhe knew nothing of the aotion, had no chance to defend, that she was not served with a summons, and that she should have been entitled to alimony. Mrs. Taylor attracted considerable attention while in the city by the richness of her attire. It is said the lace dress she wore oost over one thousand dollars. The trial was before Judge Eakin ot Astoria. Brownell & Stone represent ed Mr. Taylor. BIG FUTURE IS M ASSURED Chautauqua will Become Famous Outing Place. PLAN MANY IMPROVEMENTS, DO YOU THINK? If You Do, What do you Think of the Single Tax System? Next year Claokamas oounty will vote on the single tax proposition, an issue on which much can be said both in favor and against, but for some reason very little is printed or said. This is a matter that every voter In this oounty should be informed on. It is a sabjeot that needs some study and good judgment a matter that Bhonld be openly discussed and carefully read by every voter. The Courier would be elud to see more interest in this mat ter, and we ask any man to use these columns to express his ideas regard less of whioh side of the matter he may take Many people are a little timid about writing lor a newspaper for the reason that they are not just onto the ourves of grammar and punctuation, bat the printers are here to dot the "l's", and cross the 'tV'aud put in the commas. So if you have anything to say, say it and we will do the polishing, if any is necessary. If both tides of this single tax pro position would be dioassed bv readers through the Courier it would be inter esting reading matter, and wonld aid much in making clear points on both sides of which people are not inform ed. If you think, let us know what you think. We will not puDlish your name, if you request. Come a-run- ning. SOME QUESTIONS. The Courier can't Answer them, Can Anyone Else? A oity subscriber called op the Courier Wednesday night with this enquiry, wiuon we print as it was taken down : Editor Courier : As the Courier seems disposed to print matters of fast, no matter where located, why does it not give the verdiot in the case ot the much-tried Joseph Kerrick, ana wny Has it never had more oon oerning the Trembath shooting aJair weeks ago? I see that verdiots and entenoes are readily given oat tor in numerable drunks and minor offenses. The Courier cannot print a verdiot until it gets it, and it can't get it. Joseph Kerrick was arrested May 30, and the oase having been three times tried, is yet hanging. Reoorder Stipp does not render a verdiot, and why he does not rone seem to know. It would seem, in view of the faot that the oity oounoil found him guilty enough to refuse him a license, and tli at the oounty oourt reversed Mr, Stipp's former verdiot of guilty, that Mr. Kerrick would be entitled to know where he stands some time this summer. And then the people, too, want to know. Regarding the Trembath shooting affair, whioh oocarredjuue 8, so far as we can find, although Trembath was indicted by the grand jury for assault with a dangerous weapon, he has never, as we learn, been re leased on bail, yet is to all appear ances as free as before the shooting occurred. And for farther information, as to the modus o per end I of the oity and oounty authorities, we would refer the subscriber to the offloials. The Great Success of This Year Assures Great Future. This year's session of Gladstone Chautauqua marks the real beginning of the great Paolflo coast Chautauqua, for snch it is destined to be, and suoh is the fond wish of all who bave taken part in its past history, to gether with thousands who have at tended its many exercises This be lief is patent because there never has been so extensive advertising as that given the institution this year, thousands vi ho never visited the as sembly grounds beiore having been daily in attendance throngh this' eighteenth session, and word has gone; broadcast throughout the entire ter ritory that there will be doable the. attendance next season, and that many permanent structures will be erected and cottages ereoted for those who wish to attend and enjoy the' back to nature life so freely offered upon these grounds, together with the opportunities presented for the uplift of oharaoter, the broadening effect from an educational standpoint and the general tone and culture instilled. Willamette Valley Chautauqua this year was a suooees financially, the net ; prooeeds amounting to many handreds of dollars, and with this available; fund the management have in mind demanding improvements from a sani tary viewpoint as well as permanent , improvements, and the general beanti-' fying of the assembly grounds. Just to what extent, "it is impossible for ' those who have the matter in charge , to determine at the present time, but all may rest assured that these lm-' provements will be of suoh oharaoter that those who will be privileged to attend another season will be most agreeably surprised and pleased, and will be the better able to enjoy the manv excellent features of an aug mented program. Throughout this entire season in the . great auditorium, the lectures, choral 1 numbers, sermons, athletic attrac tions, and in faot all, have been kept " up with that excellent standard so i characteristic of Willamette Chautau- qua, and in this the management feels -well repaid for their eftortB, as it his , made much for the future success of the institution, and now with re newed vigor, there is all promise for a redoubling of that effort for the strongest and best that my be had for r another year. ",' For the suooess of the affair this i year the management has received the highest praise, and deservedly ; pointed has been the praise proffered its effloient seoretary, Mr. T. J. 1 Gary. " , All are glad that Chautauqua has done well financially. It means much ' to a oommnnity, to a oounty, and to t the people of the whole western ooast. GOVERNOR IS MAD. Says he will See Critics in Hell Before He Will Quit. Governor West says he will see the oritics of his prison parole soheme in hell before he will abandon it. Nioe talk for the governor of a great state, and a nice policy to apply to a state that already has murderers and train robbers running at large. What Oregon needs Is a lot more oriminala in jail and less" honor roll" business. It needs effective punish ment for criminals and not open pris on cells, and the state will never rid itself of the orime whioh is rifling it nutll it makes punishment fit the orime, and makes Salem prison a dread rather than prisoners' summer resort WHAT IS THE VERDICT i I, s A Case at Court that is Being 'Watched With Interest. : There is a case now before the courts that is not being tried in the ' oounty oourt house nor in the uffloe of the justice of peace, and it is more interesting than any oase brought to the attention of the people for some time. , , It is Trade at Home versus Spending yonr Money Out of Town. The evidenoe is all in. The case has been snmmed up, the . jndge has oharged the jury and it ia now in the hands of the people to render a verdiot. Whioh shall it be? Like some other cases, this one seems to drag along, and the verdict for some reason is beld back. The plaintiffs have now oome for- ward with a coup which will have great bearing on the oase and with ' whioh they hope to eventually oarry the day, and seoure a verdict which will be equitable, and it is thoaght ' there is something in it . Just what the movement is that is being planned by the merobants is not at present made public but un doubtedly it will assume the form of an association, and a getting together with a kindly and helpful disposition.,, . Fifteen square feet of land has been purchased, and already seventeen hammers have received nnoeremonions Interment. That's one good move, and the selection of the old Indian " bnrial ground was a wise one too, as -it is a known faot that Indians when " onoe under ground usually remain J qniet for some years. Noted Man Wants Divorce. A divoroe aPDlication from ft man whose name is widely known in the United States has been filed with h,a court here, in the oase of George H. Primrose vs. Esthor Primrose. George Primrose is famous as nn of the owners of Primrose & West's Minstrels. He brings aotion against his wife for desertion. They were married in Mt. Vernon. N. V m April, 1905, and it .is claimed Mrs. Primrose left him without nana i. J nly, 1910. She is now living in Mt. ' Vernon. And This is "Argument." Mr. U'Ren should be niermfnl is hard to fasten the mind nn complexities of single tax with tnermometer In the 90a. Ha ahnnM defer his leotnre till cooler weather and not expect neoDle to talk ahnnf anything more serious than baseball these days. Oregonian. It tiie the Mr. and Mrs. W. O. rn r .t Seaside spending a few days